@marillo Globe-News: News: Mensa to have exam for potential members 6/11/98

Posted: Thursday, June 11, 1998

Web posted Thursday, June 11, 1998 6:02 a.m. CT

Mensa to have exam for potential members

Mensa, an international society for people who score in the top 2 percent on standardized intelligence tests, will have an exam for potential members at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Amarillo Independent School District Support Center Board Room, 7200 Interstate 40. The cost is $25.

Advance registration is not required. Test candidates must be at least 14 and must not have ever taken a Mensa admissions test before, according to a news release.

Candidates take two standard intelligence tests and must score at or above the 98th percentile on either one for membership. The tests take about two hours. The completed tests go to the Mensa national office in Arlington for scoring. Test results are mailed back to candidates in about two weeks.

Mensa is Latin for "table" and signifies a round table society of equals. American Mensa has more than 40,000 members nationwide.

American Mensa was founded in New York City in 1960 and is the largest of the international Mensas. There are 140 Mensa chapters in the United States. The Lubbock-Amarillo local group has about 100 members who live in the Panhandle and West Texas. The local secretary of Lubbock-Amarillo Mensa is Joe D. Armstrong of Hale Center.

A proctored exam will be held at noon June 20 at the Groves Branch Library, 5520 19th St. in Lubbock.